Police arrest hackers who stole data from 8.7M mobile customers

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Police in South Korea arrested on Sunday July 29, two hackers responsible for stealing data of 8.7 million customers of KT (formerly Korea Telecom), the second largest mobile operator in South Korea. KT says the hackers stole data such as customer names, phone numbers and residential registration numbers and sold the information to telemarketing firms. The hackers made around $880,000 by selling the stolen data. KT has apologized to its customers promising “such things (will) never happen again.” 

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